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Harry
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« on: March 20, 2005, 10:53:55 AM » |
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Well Musgrove had a really good record as governor with raising teacher pay, bringing in the Nissan plant, etc., but decided for some really stupid reason to attack Barbour in his ads rather than run on his record. His ads were really annoying (Haley Barbour is poisoning your kids). Also, Barbour hid behind the state flag and said Musgrove wanted to take it away.
Also it didn't help that Barbara Blackmon was running for lt. governor as a Democrat and did some pretty crazy stuff, like trying to get Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck to sign an affidavit that she'd never had an abortion, and saying that Jesus would make sure that she'd win. Association with her also hurt Musgrove.
And, it's just hard to a Democrat to win in Mississippi. Musgrove's win over Mike Parker in 1999 was an impressive upset, and it would be quite a feat to do it again.
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